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The CPC isn't the only moving part. 22 months is a long time. Generally the longer a party is in office, the less approval it commands.

In US law (at least), it's important to have a victim of fraud in order to prosecute it (based on what I've read by US legal commentators). In the specific case, most commentators assume it's "voters", assuming there is some feasible path by which someone could get an alternate EV slate into...

An energy-poor country will be an impoverished country. An impoverished country can't support public health insurance, dental insurance, daycare subsidies, child subsidies, etc. That should factor into the opinions of people who support Trudeau (and Singh), but it seems to have little to no...

One person's debt is another person's asset. Hit the delete button and all the people who are already grasshoppers will go on being grasshoppers, while the ants will be reduced to being grasshoppers as well and have a strong disincentive to bother trying to become ants again. None of the...

Of course it won't change the outcome. The Argus Filches of the world want to see some punishment.

Fraud usually requires a defrauded party, which isn't the case here.

I'm arguing for common sense. The position is that a slate of electors should be able to prepare and submit their record of votes without legal harassment, even if they are not manifestly the slate of the election winner and there is skepticism that their candidate might prevail. The existence...

Hindsight is irrelevant, as is whether or not the single state result can materially affect the election - this is about process. Either the standalone process (certifying and transmitting a contingent or alternate slate) is legitimate or not; the "equivalency" of the overall election big...

They met, voted, certified, and transmitted their vote while Nixon was the winner of the initial count. A recount confirming Kennedy as the winner happened after that and before the formal session in Congress.

From the Reason.com article: "On January 4, 1961, a state judge, Ronald Jamieson, retroactively validated the Democrats' seemingly premature certificates. According to Jamieson's ruling, it was crucial that the electors had convened on December 19, even though their certificates contradicted the...

If Trump runs and loses a close election by a few EVs, even if there is a facially feasible challenge there are probably enough motivated people where it matters to make the result stick. It won't require imaginative malfeasance; all that has to happen is enough delay to run the clock out. If...

You missed the point, or you have nothing to say?

Good to know we can gauge the worth of any claim by counting votes, and not actually inquiring into events. [Add: the whole point of contingent electors is to produce a document by a required deadline, in case the document is needed later. In principle, there should be no objection to the...

Best to wait for the determination of "fake" versus "contingent", unless the intent is to join the baying mob. Democrats benefited from contingent electors once. They might have to do so again. Add this to the long list of things people are doing in the short term that could cost them long...

Are not enough people coming in the door, or are too many leaving before they are qualified for trade?

"Shakedown." Glad to see I'm not the only person using that word. All of the websites that don't qualify to wet their beaks will learn to compete properly. The big ones will continue to gradually strangle themselves. Picking a fight over links is like eating seed corn.

Menendez is a Democrat, if you were thinking about him.

Well, that places her squarely in the camp of Republican policy nutters like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. Republicans have been wanting to do this for quite a while. Good luck bringing Democrats to the table. 10 years to a mandatory 20% benefit cut unless, of course, the Congress of the day...

The issue right now isn't whether or not conclusive proof has been shown that Joe Biden has been accepting bribes. The issue right now is whether enough red flags have been raised that a DoJ investigation at least as prolonged and wide in scope as the "Russian Collusion" investigations is...